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by casca 14y ago
I've self-hosted as much as I can since 2000 and as with everything, one should weigh up the costs of self-hosting versus the benefits. First, honestly assess your own level of skill. Then pick a service and decide what it would cost you to
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by casca 14y ago
While there will naturally be a suspension of data collection, much of the work is around crunching the numbers of the huge amount of data already collected which will continue. Expect further breakthroughs in the next 2 years. Also, I can
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by casca 14y ago
I stopped using Owncloud after the sync client deleted a new local file. If a component that's designed to synchronise files will happily delete them in an unrecoverable way, that's a design that I won't trust my data to.
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by casca 14y ago
One reason that HFT is disliked is that it gives disproportionate advantage to the big players who put in the high speed infrastructure and equipment. This means that a few companies are able to extract profits from the market by simply spe
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by casca 14y ago
One of the greatest frustration for those who have been working in infosec for a while is that the same issues keep coming up. As an industry, technology security should be getting better and it's not. This is probably the best book for dev
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by casca 14y ago
They seem to have missed the most important reason: - Because we can raise it now at a good valuation and the future is uncertain
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by casca 14y ago
I've been running FirewallIP on iOS 6 for a few months now, it works great.
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by casca 14y ago
FirewallIP is my killer IOS app. Once I can get the equivalent for Android, I'll happily leave the Apple ecosystem.
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by casca 14y ago
For a more detailed description of Jared Diamond's experience with the dead tree in New Guinea: http://www.edge.org/conversation/tales-from-the-world-before... And if you're in London, consider adding yourself to the waiting list: http:/
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by casca 14y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Custora but this looks like it might be a worthwhile free learning opportunity from a company that works in the CLV space. However I find it odd that it's necessary to attend the class from 2-3pm EST with no offline opti
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by casca 14y ago
Cisco was always a poor fit for Linksys as they were scared of cannibalizing their own high-margin products. This market is getting hammered by TP-Link which provides consistently good quality products at low prices and many are DD-WRTable.
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by casca 14y ago
I've been running searches like this using http://matrix.itasoftware.com for years but I've built up my own lists of what constitutes "Eastern Europe" and "US West Coast". ITA provides software for the airline industry so has high-speed c
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UC spends big to market its online courses — but reaches only one person(venturebeat.com)
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by casca 14y ago
So a cheaper device is selling more units than a more expensive one? This hardly seems newsworthy. If the Asha was making more profit then perhaps something interesting might be happening but there's no indication that this is the case. Per
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: anecdotally, "internet dating has made people more disposable"
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: OP finally bought an expensive pen on Kickstarter; they like it.
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by casca 14y ago
Check out http://tack.io/ and http://convergence.io/ You could also listen to this if that's your preferred way of learning things: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/moxie-marlinspike-tack-co...
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by casca 14y ago
This is might be a helpful way to get people to care about making small, incremental improvements but the scientific basis is suspect. There is no evidence that 20 minutes of exercise adds an hour to your life. Taking the aggregate informat
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: 5 myths about funded companies: - Funded companies are all about fake business plans - Funded companies are all about overpaid teams and making losses - Funded companies are all about investors sitting on your board and driving decis
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: Krugman says that the shortfall in funding of US entitlements is that a growing percentage of income is coming from capital gains rather than payroll and that only payroll contributes to these entitlements.
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: Some guy on Twitter says "VCs will fund any company with a Series A if they are making $2,750 a day". The author disagrees and says that there are 3 things that are important: market, growth rate and margin.
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by casca 14y ago
I'm loving how the trend now seems to have apps using Dropbox to store my data. Hopefully the next step will be to use a standard self-hosting API (that does not seem to exist yet) for those who are happy to pay for software but want to kee
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Five Trends to Watch for in Chinese Cybersecurity in 2013(blogs.cfr.org)
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Joi Ito's Trends to Watch in 2013(thinkwithgoogle.com)
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by casca 14y ago
The Complicité theatre company made a wonderful play about Ramanujan called A Disappearing Number that was excellent and widely praised http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/sep/15/a-disappearing-n... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Disap
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by casca 14y ago
This is access to your inbox for advertisers. For those who don't use Facebook, if you receive a message from someone who is not your "friend", it goes into a different folder called "Other". Many people don't know about this and there's no
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: 1. Don’t give a presentation - have a conversation 2. Speak in your voice and style 3. Tell personal stories
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by casca 14y ago
This link is to a PDF scan of The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint that came from a library
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: 1. Provide an Experience that Doesn't Require Human Support 2. Be Responsive 3. Be Public 4. Be Honest 5. Help Users Help You 6. Prioritize 7. Tell Users the Official Channels and Monitor Unofficial Ones 8. Have a Short Memory
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by casca 14y ago
TL;DR: Elcomsoft releases tool to recover keys from memory from BitLocker, PGP Whole Disk Encryption and TrueCrypt. This attack is not news, but Elcomsoft makes excellent tools that work so it makes it easier. There is no cracking going on.

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